The 4th NorCal Control Workshop is kicking off at UCSC, with academic speakers discussing key challenges and advancements in control and automation sciences. Thanks to Electrical and Computer Engineering Department and Cyber-Physical Systems Research Center - UCSC for funding of this event. norcal-control.github.io Baskin Engineering at UCSC

Today's NorCal Control Workshop featured Keynote Speaker Dave Powell, Professor Emeritus of Aeronautics and Astronautics at Stanford University and author of two of the leading control textbooks. Thanks again to Electrical and Computer Engineering Department for their funding of this event. norcal-control.github.io Baskin Engineering at UCSC

(2/2) UCSC principal investigators and #BaskinEngineering Professors Ricardo Sanfelice, Heiner Litz, Abhishek Halder will collaborate with industry and academic partners to advance cyber-physical systems both in research and education. Learn more below. news.ucsc.edu/2022/06/sanfel…

At the University of California, Santa Cruz, we are hiring a new program coordinator. Details about the position at careerspub.universityofcalifornia.edu/psp/ucsc/EMPLO… CITRIS CITRIS UC Santa Cruz Baskin Engineering at UCSC

Great to see several of our #BaskinEngineers leading discussions on ways we can increase the number of Hispanic women pursuing STEM education and careers and further educational equity. @UCSC is taking up an important leadership role in the Alliance of Hispanic Serving Research Universities. news.ucsc.edu/2023/07/hsru-2…

The sky’s the limit: UCSC CIDER Director Becca Fenwick gives research and education a new perspective with drone tech citris-uc.org/the-skys-the-l… via CITRIS

Numerically evaluating the cost of optimal control problems is challenging and, most times, impossible due to the curse of dimensionality. In our recent work, we characterize the (exact) upper bound w/o numerically computing solutions youtu.be/ePfciuqekRkSpe… Santiago Jimenez Leudo Baskin Engineering at UCSC

Motion planning for systems with mode transitions/switches/state resets is challenging due to the combination of continuous and discrete dynamics. In youtu.be/2R-GS0y2lpA we present a probabilistically complete RRT-based algorithm for hybrid systems.  Baskin Engineering at UCSC Santiago Jimenez Leudo

Parameter estimation for hybrid systems is challenging due to the combination of continuous and discrete dynamics that can cause industry-standard estimators to fail. In youtu.be/iRvHkzL-q28, we present parameter estimation algorithms for hybrid systems. UC Santa Cruz Cyber-Physical Systems Research Center - UCSC

The 44th International Summer School of Automatic Control took place in Grenoble, France last week. Talks about safety and reachability were presented. The school also featured short talks by researchers and a panel. gipsa-lab.grenoble-inp.fr/summerschools/…

Our paper "Forward Invariance-Based Hybrid Control Using Uncertified Controllers" with Paul Wintz will be presented today at the IEEE CDC 2023, at 10:40am in Orchid Main 4201AB within the Event-Triggered and Self-Triggered Control I session.#IEEECDC2023 #HybridSystems

This afternoon, our work on invariants for interconnections, entitled "On Invariants for Open Hybrid Systems and Their Interconnections" will be presented the CDC in Singapore, session WeB24 in Orchid Main room. #IEEECDC2023 #HybridSystems

We will present our paper titled "HySST: An Asymptotically Near-Optimal Motion Planning Algorithm for Hybrid Systems," co-authored with my Ph.D. student @Nan Wang, at the 2023 IEEE CDC. The presentation will be in Orchid Main 4201AB. #IEEECDC2023 #HybridSystems #MotionPlanning

Next Thursday, we will have Gabriel Nemirovsky, Ph.D. Candidate at the University of York. Gabriel will discuss "Building a Framework for Trustworthy Autonomous Agents: Autonomous Agents and Value Alignment." Full details at cps.soe.ucsc.edu/cps-events Baskin Engineering at UCSC

Denial-of-Service (DoS) attacks in the sensors can potentially lead to non-observable modes and safety violations. In youtu.be/UWwE51dGEeE, we propose an observer-based switching algorithm to guarantee safety wrt a set of interest under DoS attacks Santiago Jimenez Leudo  Baskin Engineering at UCSC

Lars Lindemann presents learning methods for learning control barrier functions to guarantee safety in dynamical systems. Cyber-Physical Systems Research Center - UCSC UC Santa Cruz Baskin Engineering at UCSC

Our paper "A Data-Driven Approach for Certifying Asymptotic Stability and Cost Evaluation for Hybrid Systems" with C. Montenegro and S Jimenez was presented today at the HSCC 2024. This paper proposes a learning-based algorithm to design Lyapunov functions for hybrid systems.

Our paper "Hybrid Dynamical Systems Formulation of Capture-the-Flag Games" with S. Jimenez, P. Braun, and I. Shames will be presented today at the ADHS 2024. We propose a hybrid system formulation of capture-the-flag games. #ADHS2024 #HybridSystems #HybridGames Cyber-Physical Systems Research Center - UCSC

Today we will present our paper titled "A Switched Reference Governor for High-Performance Trajectory Tracking Control," co-authored with Dr. Di Cairano from MERL and my Ph.D. student Nan Wang at the 2024 American Control Conference (ACC24). #ACC2024 #HybridSystems Baskin Engineering at UCSC

Today, we presented our work "MultiHyRL: Robust Hybrid RL for Obstacle Avoidance against Adversarial Attacks on the Observation Space," co-authored with Z. Bell from AFRL, P. Ganesh from EpiSci, and my Ph.D. student Jan de Priester at RLC24. #RLC2024 #HybridSystems Baskin Engineering at UCSC